Patrick deWitt Quotes
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.Patrick deWitt
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
Randi Weingarten -
I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
Larry David -
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan Quayle -
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
Saint Basil -
I am who I am.
J. B. Pritzker -
People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
Tamzin Merchant
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
Carey Mulligan -
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
Jack Ma -
I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
Carey Mulligan -
When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
Tamron Hall -
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett -
I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
Manny Pacquiao
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
Padgett Powell -
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
Kate Bernheimer -
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters -
No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
Mara Wilson -
There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
Hanya Yanagihara
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My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
Kary Mullis -
My legs are starting to get back under me. I'm getting my rhythm back and I'm just going out there to play. Not really thinking about it.
Antonio McDyess -
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Zoe Kazan -
My characters hope for better lives.
Octavia E. Butler -
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
Patrick deWitt